It’s not a bizarre opinion it’s a thing I have been through. While it depends on state where I live if you don’t have any intention on repair don’t separate go to divorce
I think no.
The point of separation is to allow time to repair the relationship. Having extra relations during the time meant to focus on repairing the main relationship is cheating. Full stop.
My concern with this approach would be the unhinged retaliatory response from the world’s. Richest dictator. I mean I’m just a pothead from the US so I imagine some military strategist has accounted for this… But it’s kinda hard to imagine how crazy is gonna act